Rita Ora Quotes
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
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Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.
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I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.
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Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
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Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
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When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
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One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
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In acting, you draw so much on your private life.
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If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
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I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
